Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mail and the CRIMSON reporter had just come to the Newburyport Town Hall and "Bossy" Gillis was busy. Between his knees stood a wastebasket, rapidly filling with the spoils of the morning...
...frightened eye, ran wildly about the barnyard, bumped into, trampled on, injured one another. Next day they did not lay so many eggs. Reason: hens have ears (not visible to the casual observer) and they heard the ear-splitting roar of a low-flying airplane carrying U. S. mail. This roar came twice daily and began to interfere with the profits of the proprietor of the Cackle Corner Poultry Farm. So he wrote a protest last week to U. S. Postmaster General Harry S. New. Prompt to please, Mr. New asked the National Air Transport Co. (under contract to carry...
...this nickel's worth would have revolted His Holiness, what must have been his bedazzlement upon receiving, last week, mail addressed to him from Russia. In this he found an official communication from the Government at Moscow, which stated that he, Pope Pius XI, had been condemned to death. The letter arrived by registered mail and bore the signatures of Premier Alexei Ivanovitch Rykov, Party Secretary Stalin and other Communist bigwigs. It offered grounds for the condemnation in a reference to the Pope's financial contributions toward the support of the anti-Bolshevist movement...
...enclosed newspaper cutting appeared in a recent issue of the London Daily Mail and was forwarded to me from England...
Professor Coolidge, while he lived had no nickname, had no societies named after him, had no fan mail. He cared not for these-scholarship, his lecutres, his books, his missions, his duties as an editor and as director of the Widener Library, were enough. In them he had his life. In them he has his monument, more permanent than life...